Bike Touring Journals by Neil Anderson and Sharon Anderson Bicycle touring journals
April 23 Sunday Bicycle touring France
Rain. Rain. Rain. It started last night and has continued unabated all day. A light constant drizzling rain. Our bicycle touring tent is pitched on high ground above the clear flowing river beside us. Hopefully, it stays that way -- contained within its banks. I have no desire to turn this cycle touring trip into a canoe trip. I wonder how long a tent would float. Not at all? Probably.
The good news is that our two-person Kelty tent has stayed dry inside with only the slightest condensation and a bit of rain when we open the fly to make periodic trips outside to attend to nature's calling.
Yesterday, being Saturday, we bought groceries for today as well, so even though we are trapped inside our cycle touring tent, we are in good stead in the larder department.I even got rid of most of that horrid prune jam that I have been carrying in my rear bike touring pannier since Italy. I think it has started to ferment. The sides of the plastic Yoplait bottle I had put the jam in from its glass container to save on weight, swells up. It makes a hooshing noise when I unscrew the top. Maybe the bottle is just trying to upchuck the contents?
Sharon succeeded in getting the cork out of the wine bottle today. I don't know ... I kind of liked having to work for it. Sucking on the bottle like a wine baby.
I'm reading a novel about cats called Golden Coney. Our friend, Heide, a cat lover, would enjoy it.
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